Religious urbanism in Singapore: Competition, commercialism and compromise in the search for space

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Religious urbanism; space; desecularisation; Singapore; Christianity; competition; Asian Studies; Religion; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2703; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3960/viewcontent/Religious_urbanism_in_Singapore_2018_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper explores the recursive relationship between religious praxisand urban environments. It advances the concept of “religious urbanism” to showhow urban environments play an active role in shaping the praxis of religion,and how religious groups adopt secular logics in response to the pressure...